Lid for culinary vessels.



J. F. DAVENPORT.

LID FOR CULINARY VESSELS'.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8.1914.

1,145,231 Patented July 6, 1915.

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LID FOR cULmARv-vEssE s.

' Application filed June 8, 1914. Isefiai 110,843,713.

To all whom it may concern i Beit known that I, JOHN F. DAVENPORT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stoughton, in the county of Dane and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lids for Culinary Vessels, of which the following is a specification. Y

This invention relates to jars, crooks,

bowls or other culinary vessels, and its ob' ject is to provide a lid for the same having novel and improvedmeans whereby such lid may be firmly clamped on the vessel to eifect a tight closure. A bail is also provided to facilitate the handling of the vessel. This object is attained by means of a combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the application of "the invention, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing one end of the device.

Referring specifically to the drawing, 5 denotes anvearthenware bowl or other culinary vessel to which the invention .is applied. At the top of the bowl is aneXternal head or flange 6. The lid of the bow-l is in- Y dicated at 7, the same being. shaped. to seat lid is riveted or otherwise fastened, as indicated at 8, a resilient metal strip 9. This strip projects radially from the center of the lid in oppositedirections and has at each of its free ends a bifurcated book 10. To the free ends of the strip are pivotally connected hooks 11 designed to be slipped under the head 6 to engage the same. The shanks of the hooks have lateral extensions 12 provided at their extremities, on opposite sides, with outstanding trunnion lugs 13 over which the hooks lO'are slipped, whereby the connections between the hooks 11 and the strip 9 are made. The hooks 10 are bifurcated in order that they may straddle the parts 12. At the top of the shanks of the hooks 11, back of the lugs 13, are eyes 14 for attachment of a bail 15.

The strip 9 is so tensioned that its normal tendency is to spring outward at its ends from the top of the lid 7 as shown dotted in Fig. 1. Hence, in order to fasten the lid in Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

hooks 11 under the bead 6, and when the hooks are thus placed, the lid is firmly; pressed down on the vessel by thespring action of the strip 9, and held in place by the hooks 11. Therelease of thelid is readily effected by disengaging the hooks 11' from the bead 6, which action is facilitated I by providing said hookswith finger-holds 16. The vessel may be carried by using the bail 15 without danger of the hooks 11 slip- Specification ofLettersPatent. i Patented Jilly 6 I place on the vessel, it is necessary to force thejends of the strip downward to bring the v I ping ofl" the bead 6. The heavier the suspended weight, the tighter will the hooks grip the'bead.

The device is most useful in connection with butter crooks and preserve jars. When theseare placed in a cooler their contentsare not affected by: the odors from the contents j of other vessels in the cooler.

I claim:

1. The combination with a vessel having an external bead at the top; of a lid for said vessel, a resilient member secured to the top of the lid at the center thereof, said member connected. to the free ends of thejmem her and engageablewiththe aforesaid bead,

ient member. 1 a r y 2. The combinationwith'a vessel having and a bail connected to the hooks backof the I connection between the hooks and 'theresil an external head at the top of a lidfo-r said vessel, a resilient member secured to the top of the lid at the center thereof, said member having a normal tendency to spring outwardvided on opposite sides with trunnion lugs, and the free ends of the resilient member I r at its free ends from the lid, hooks engage-.

having hooks engaging said lugs, the aforesaid lateral extensions havingeyeslocated back of the trunnions, and a bail connected.

to the eyes.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

.Washington, D. 0.

JOHN F. DA ENPORT; 

